Upsidonia

While on a walking holiday, John Howard enters an unsafe cave and is cut off from the entrance by a rockfall. He goes deeper into the cave and finds another way out. He assumes that he is in the same England that he left behind, but when he tries to give sixpence to a tramp, he is threatened with arrest. By contrast, when a man attempts to relieve him of his watch and his money while he lies asleep, the act is construed by others as charity. He is in Upsidonia, where everyone longs to be desperately poor and wealth is despised.

While on a walking holiday, John Howard enters an unsafe cave and is cut off from the entrance by a rockfall. He goes deeper into the cave and finds another way out. He assumes that he is in the same England that he left behind, but when he tries to give sixpence to a tramp, he is threatened with arrest. By contrast, when a man attempts to relieve him of his watch and his money while he lies asleep, the act is construed by others as charity. He is in Upsidonia, where everyone longs to be desperately poor and wealth is despised.